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So what does Godrej really make? Locks, soaps, cupboards, hair dye...the company finds that the answer varies widely depending on who you ask. It's trying to stitch together a strategy that showcases a cross section of its folio, tying it back to the mother band. And helping it along is brand ambassador Aamir Khan in drag. Recently a simple query about the exact number of brands under the Godrej umbrella evoked a hesitant and somewhat unsure response from the top management of the over 100-year-old Indian conglomerate.

NEW DELHI: Newly elected CII President S Gopalakrishnan on Monday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and discussed role of the industry in improving the overall economic climate of the country. "The discussion focused on the role of Indian industry on improving the overall economic climate, with special emphasis on investments into India, reducing current account deficit and fiscal deficit , enhancing employability, entrepreneurship and MSME ," CII said in a statement.

MUMBAI: Godrej Properties, the real estate development arm of the Godrej Group, has launched phase 5 of its township project Godrej Garden City in Ahmedabad. The new phase of the township project will offer two and three bedroom apartments at prices starting at Rs 35 lakhs, the company said in a release. Under this phase, Godrej Properties has also launched convenience retail space City Square at the project. Phase 5 of this township project will have four 12-storey towers and will offer apartments measuring 1,150 sq ft and 1,550 sq ft, the company said.

MUMBAI: Godrej Properties, the real estate development arm of the Godrej Group, has entered into a joint development agreement with six housing societies at Sahakar Nagar 2 in Chembur suburb of Mumbai, the company said in a release. The listed developer's subsidiary Godrej Redevelopers Mumbai Pvt. Ltd has entered into a development agreement with the Sahakar Nagar Vibhag- II Federation, to undertake a residential redevelopment project here. The project spread over 3.9 acres will offer around 750,000 sq ft of free sale area to the developer.

BANGALORE: Nadir Godrej, managing director of Godrej Industries - part of the $3.3-billion ( Rs 17,800 crore) Godrej Group, has invested an undisclosed amount in LocalCircles, a community-based local social network, joining a growing list of corporate leaders who have turned into angel investors. The Delhi-based start-up enables citizens to connect with local communities, including neighbours, colleagues and teachers, and find assistance during emergencies like fire or accidents through web or mobile phones.

ET Now: Some specific midcap ideas, you spoke about the likes of Rallis, Bayer Cropscience, Godrej Industries that you believe in and have conviction in right now. Jagdish Malkani: Rallis is great play on, of course they are in agrichemicals, etc, but the more important thing is they have to gone into seeds and it is a company to watch in the Tata Group and otherwise. If especially the seeds endeavour goes well which I do think it will, it is well managed, etc, and the stock has been really pummelled recently from 150 something, the results were not that great but sill this is a good buy. Bayer Cropscience again agrichemicals happens to be the same space but it also has a dollop of cash in its books, it is recently sold lots of land in Dombivli area of 1200 odd crores, money in the bank, you take per share that comes to about Rs 250 or Rs 300 a share expectation of one time fancy dividend and it is doing very well and the other one I talked about was Godrej Industries, again evergreen the Godrej group doing extremely well, even today on a day of carnage you will see Godrej consumer way out this so Godrej Industries owns a chunk of that and Godrej Properties and its own play of property ownership as a holding company, etc. this is a good opportunity to get into that stock.

NEW DELHI: Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company and Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances (BSH) Group have collaborated to develop a new range of refrigerators for various markets, including India. The companies have inked a technology collaboration to develop a new range of refrigerators for India, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa , the companies today said in a joint statement. "The collaboration brings together Godrej Appliance's expertise in developing advanced, energy-efficient green technologies and BSH's global experience and technological expertise in the appliance sector," they added.

In a chat with ET Now, Rajen Shah , Chief Investment Officer, Angel Broking , shares his views on IT Stocks. What is happening in some of the large caps to start off with or IT to start off with? what is the call on Infy and TCS right now? Infy post the numbers, TCS pre-numbers, what are you advising clients? We have already seen a smart run up in Infosys. Numbers have been okay. Rs 162 is what they are projecting and for FY14 we, at Angel, are expecting it to clock about 180 or may be about Rs 183 kind of earnings.

GANDHINAGAR: Terming Gujarat as a "good state" to invest, Godrej Group Chairman Adi Godrej today said the salt-to-soap conglomerate has lot of investments in the state and it will continue to do so in the coming days. "We have several projects in Gujarat, we have large townships. It's a green township. We have also several industrial projects in the state. We will continue to invest. It's a good state to invest (in)," Godrej said on the sidelines of the sixth edition of 'Vibrant Gujarat' here.

MUMBAI/BANGALORE: Software services firm Geometric, in which billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjunwala is the largest stakeholder, has acquired 3Cap Technologies GmbH (3Cap), a Munich, Germany-based specialist in electronics engineering for the automotive industry. Mumbai-based Geometric said 3Cap is valued at Euro 11 million (Rs 79 crore) of which Euro 7.5 million (Rs 54 crore) will be paid up front. The acquisition will be funded through cash accruals with the balance payments subject to earn-outs over a maximum period of 3 years.